In this role, you’ll forge meaningful relationships with service users, guiding their journeys through assessment, planning, and implementation of tailored care. Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll contribute to vital assessments and the development of impactful care plans, ensuring that each person receives the support they need. We’re looking for a proactive and resilient therapist who is keen to embrace their professional growth, with plenty of opportunities for continued training and development. Join us and enjoy fantastic benefits, including an NHS pension, generous annual leave starting at 27 days, and numerous staff discounts. If you’re ready to inspire change in your local community, we encourage you to apply!
Are you looking to work in mental health? Would you like an OT specific role working within an OT team?
We are looking to recruit a Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join our team at Ipswich inpatient mental health services, at Woodlands. The successful candidate will work alongside the band 7 AHP lead, band 6 OTs and activity workers covering 4 wards. Working closely with the Multi Disciplinary Team you will have opportunity to develop knowledge and skills within acute mental health.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to supervise an activity coordinator and to implement person centred OT interventions and promote the OT profession within this setting. The successful candidate will work under the supervision and guidance of an experienced Senior Occupational Therapist in order to refine their skills and develop within this role.
You will be expected to take a clinical role in the OT assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of services for clients.
Contribute to and participate in multi-disciplinary team assessments.
Be involved in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of person-centred care planning and person-centred formulations.
Provide a first line response to referrals, providing where necessary a health and social care needs assessment or meeting the needs already identified in a health and social care needs assessment.
You will have the opportunity to develop strong therapeutic relationships with our service users during their admission to hospital which will support your professional approach and guide your assessments and interventions in order to make admissions meaningful and purposeful. You will be given the opportunity to network and develop professional relationships with community teams and professionals to promote the recovery and discharge of our service users. You will also liaise with third sector services within the local community in order to signpost and engage our service users in meaningful activities to promote their recovery when leaving hospital.
About us
We would like to employ a compassionate, proactive, adaptable and resilient Occupational Therapist who demonstrates, leadership and initiative within their role.
The successful candidate will be given the opportunity and time to engage in their Continuous Professional Development (CPD) by identifying areas in their profession that they would like to develop and being able to utilise opportunities and training within the Trust and wider sector to develop and flourish within their professional role and career.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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